This is true of Python also. I don't "get" Python, and you can bet any Python I'd write would be crap.
In order to use a programming langauge, you actually have to learn it. Then you have to use it (to determine what you don't know), and then learn that too. Repeat.
There is no magical "I can understand it without learning" programming language. So any criticism of Perl for this reason applies to every other programming language.
This is true of Python also. I don't "get" Python, and you can bet any Python I'd write would be crap.
In order to use a programming langauge, you actually have to learn it. Then you have to use it (to determine what you don't know), and then learn that too. Repeat.
There is no magical "I can understand it without learning" programming language. So any criticism of Perl for this reason applies to every other programming language.